Birds took wing yesterday as a wrecking crew dynamited part of the old Wainwright Brewery, Tenth and Gratiot streets to clear the site for erection of a terminal by the Yellow Transit Company.
Demolition of the Wainwright Brewery building on 10th and Gratiot street. The amount of smoke increases as the majority of the side building and the pillar collapse.
Above, rolling out the barrels at the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, 1920 Shenandoah ave., was resumed yesterday as picket lines were withdrawn by the AFL Teammasters Local 688, which had sought to organize office workers.
The Carling Brewing Company of Cleveland bought out Griesedieck Western Brewery Company, makers of Stag, on Nov. 1, 1954. Since then they have closed the St. Louis brewery and consolidated operations at the Belleville plant.
There is a right way and wrong way to draw a glass of beer from a tap. This is the correct way-letting the beer bounce off the bottom of the glass instead of allowing it to trickle down the side.
Marty Gaubatz, who has been with Stag for 44 years, celebrates in Bernie and Gene's Tavern in Belleville. He says he's looking forward to seeing a lot of his old buddies again.
In the image, the viewer can see a medium sized tank which contains Carling's 3,000,000th BBL. The three millionth barrel of beer was produced in 1957 by the Belleville plant.